Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-24
A MIND-READER,S FEAT.

A
Driving Blindfold Through the Streets of New
York in Search of a Hidden Pin.
New York Sun.
The fact that Mind Reader Bishop was
going to make blind dash out of the
Hoffman house some time during yester-
day afternoon and rush off in search of
an article hidden somewhere within a
mile of the hotel by committee selected
for the purpose, became so well known
that a great crowd gathered about the
Twenty-fifth street entrances to the hotel,
and waited in the cold.
A medallion belonging to Mrs. Frank
Leslie was intrusted to Col. L. W. Knox,
Hoyt, II. G. Bunner, and ii. g. Carleton.
They went off out of the hotel with it, and
were gone half an hour. Then Mr.. Bishop
with his eyes bandaged and his head In q
black bag and himself attached to each
of three committeeman by wire, was led
down to two-seated open wagon which
stood in the dense crowd before the door
in Twenty-fitth street. Mr.. Bishop was
assisted to the drivers seat and sat down
on the left-hand side. DIR. Hoyt climbed
up beside him. Col. Knox and Mr.. Charlie
ton took the back seat. Mr.. Bunner re-
manned behind in the parlor, where he
wrote down on a piece of paper the place
where the medallion pin was concealed,
putting the bit of paper in sealed en-
velope, to be opened when Mr.. Bishop
returned.
When the mind-reader and the three
committeeman were started in the wagon
the committeeman held their bare hands
close to Mr.. Bishops hooded head for q
moment, and then Mr.. Bishop, with
tight grip on the reins started the horses
toward Broadway with three carriages
and about five hundred people following
in his wake. He picked his way carefully
through the tangled procession of broad
way vehicles. and when he reached the
north side of Madison square started the
horses off at brisk trot a swarm of able
bodied and well-dressed and apparently
rational men joining in the mob Of boot
blacks and newsboys which swarmed
after him. The wires connecting Bishop
with the committeeman hung loosely,
and none of the hands held near the
mind-reader's head touched him.
The bliBdfold driver took the left-hand
side of the road, but avoided all veicles
we'll enough, driving at lively trot to
the east side of No. 81 Madison square,
then to Twenty-third street, then to
Fourth avenue, and then to Eighteenth
street. At Eighteenth street and Fourth
avenue he hesitated for a moment and
| only escaped collision with a street-car
| by driving close to the curb. He then
| turned into Eighteenth street, and went
| quickly to Irving place, where he turned
to the left and headed for,Gramercy park.
| On arriving at the park he turned to tae
right and drove so slowly that the crowd
surged up closely around his wagon and
| filled the street, one welI-dressed man
being knocked down by carriage which
was following in the mind-reader's wake.
He jumped up cheerfully and limped
along with the procession with unabated
enthusiasm. At the southeast corner of
| Gramercy park Bishop stopped his horses
| climbed quickly to the ground, and ran
| so swiftly off that the committee had all
| they wanted to do to keep track of him.
| At the Gramercy Park hotel, on the east
side of the park, he stopped for mo-
ment, and then skipped up the steps and
long enough to let him and his painting
escort in, and was then closed just in
time to shut out the crowd
/ :gAfter five minutes Mr.. Bishop appear
ed with inc wraps off his head, his facs
flushed, and his eyes dancing with excite
ment. He held aloft the pin, and the
crowd cheered. Then he got into the
wagon and held the pin up again, and
the crowd cheered again, and the mind
reader and his committee, with the three
carriages in the wake, drove quietly back
to the hotel by the nearest route.
AS Mr.. Bishop entered the parlor he
was greeted with hand-clapping, and
when quiet came Col. Knox said.
"Mr. Bishop found the pin under a vase
which stood on the mentel On the south
side of the reception-room of the new
part of the Gramercy Park hotel."j
Then Jadge Gedney solemnly opened
the sealed envelope, took from it the bit
of paper on which Mr.. Drummer had writ
ten the hiding place of the pin, and read:
"The pin was concealed under vase on
the mantel at the south side Of the recep-
tion-room of the Gramercy Park hotel.
At this there was amurmur of applause.
The committee went by an entirely diff
ferent route when they hid the pin, driv
ing first up Broadway to Thirtieth street,
then to Madison avenue, where they de-
termiEed on the place of concealmeut.
! Then they drove Twenty third street,
from there to Lexington avenue, from
there down Lexington avenue to Gramerey
park. DR. Hoyt said that when Mr.. Bishop
took the bandages off his eyes, after
discovering the pin, his pulse was bound
ing away at the rate of 152 beats to the
minute.
THE PROTECTIVE FRATERNITY